Abithica by Susan Goldsmith- Advanced Copy

The Gist

Abithica
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Abithica doesn't know what she is. She only knows that she gets thrown into other peoples bodies and takes control of them for a while. Their life is in her control. Then she is suddenly gone from their life and has taken over another person. The only word she can use to describe herself is parasite. When she is thrown into the life of Sydney Turner she bites off more than she can chew. She is now suddenly involved with an evil cult that she has not even heard about before. Then to top of all of her new problems there is Lane and his love for her and being a parasite to Abithica has one rule and one rule only DON'T fall in love.

What We Think
Reviewed by ShoreWhisperer
Number of Pages: 288
This book was intense from the beginning. There was alot of confusion, mostly because Abithica didn't know where she was or who she was. Everything was hazy until the third or fourth chapter when answers started coming. That was one of my complaints. I can understand the importance of not knowing what or who Abithica is really but sometimes that became a real hassle and it even took away from being able to comprehend the book. Also, there are alternate chapters that really aren't in the view of Abithica and even though they are labled it still added to the confusion of the book.
There were characters that were introduced half way through the book and that added to the confusion too. Alot of the characters didn't have alot of character development. Only the immediate characters were really developed well and when they were it was nice they were so complex and real. I feel like if the characters were developed a little better overall and made the book a little longer then it wold be more satisfying. I know that there are upcoming books in this series hopefully there will be more characterization.
Finally the topics dealt with were old but still nice. Abithica has the ulitimate choice. Should she let herself love or should she live her life the way she always has. It could ultimatly help her find herself or it could destroy her. Then the light touches of the good verses bad helped shadow this book with little bursts of wisdom. I thoroughly enjoyed this book after a while and I couldn't put it down. This is an ultimate goal of a good book but it also showed some good insight into how humans live. It was entertaining on many levels.
Real Teen Rating~ B: Read it but there is no rush